Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni shot her response at him like a reflex action , a little guiltily aware that it had rather less to do with the truth and rather more to do with her sudden need for a shield . |
| 2 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 3 | The emperor attended the première , and seemed to approve , despite his observation that it had too many notes ( ‘ Just as many as are necessary , your majesty , ’ Mozart is said to have replied ) . |
| 4 | He waved the paper at her , and , even at a distance , she could see that it said very little . |
| 5 | His major criticism of Murder in the Cathedral had been that it contained too much obvious " poetry " , and in the new play he wanted to create a more flexible and less ostensible verse line which could handle demotic or rarefied material equally well . |
| 6 | The essential feature of the life which Eliot had constructed for himself is that it contained as few surprises as possible : it has been said that , for over thirty years , he patronized the same tailor , the same tobacconist and the same wine merchant . |
| 7 | The Provisional IRA has admitted that it carried out this mass murder . |
| 8 | Regarding economic management , one tenet of monetarism is that the effects of money supply changes involve both long and variable lags , so that it assumes too much expertise on behalf of politicians to imagine they can time expansive monetary policy to their advantage . |
| 9 | There is also ‘ value-rational ’ ( wertrational ) action , where the goal is so dominant for the actor that it drives out all calculation or concern for consequences . |
| 10 | The most important was that it offered far more opportunity professionally . |
| 11 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 12 | Not that it mattered very much because he was living in my flat and was n't going to starve , but I said to him , there is only one way that you can make quick , ready money and that is going out in cabaret . |
| 13 | The Divisional Court felt that it followed inexorably that privilege must attach to the photocopies made in those circumstances . |
| 14 | ONE problem with a high-tech war is that it requires so much technology . |
| 15 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 16 | The US and the Anglo-Saxon countries , for example , complain that it spends too much time and makes too little progress on basic standards , which they see as of benefit to developing countries alone . |
| 17 | That is not bad considering that it spends so much of its time pulling a boat around . |
| 18 | Set the microphone so that it picks up that group and use the resulting recording to set tasks for trainees which focus them on the learner . |
| 19 | Although the mainstream group , Fatah , made clear that it ruled out any question of subverting the Hashemite regime , other groups , of which the PFLP was the most notable , made equally clear their view that the overthrow of the Hashemites was a necessary preliminary to the recovery of Palestine . |
| 20 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 21 | In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country . |
| 22 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 23 | Des Collins , of the Royal Ontario Museum , doubts that it deserves quite such an honour . |
| 24 | She wondered if she would have let herself get involved had she known in advance that it entailed so much messing with entrails . |
| 25 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 26 | ( This means that it takes up more hospital space than any other single illness . ) |
| 27 | Not that it meant very much , because when you thought about it it was n't something really to celebrate but today , June 28th , was his birthday . |
| 28 | I mean , the side bits look nice heavier cos it 's it gives you that it goes up that way . |
| 29 | The trouble with the entire left is that it talks too much . |
| 30 | Unfortunately the orientation of the palazzo means that it gets very little sun to set it off ; this together with the dark paint and stonework , means it looks rather sombre . |